The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1920, Page 1

"RIAL SUFFRAGISTS INR Ne ce 'O JERSEY M MAYOR OF CORK DYING IN HIS HUNGER STRIKE NA 1 "ION - To-night’s Weather—FAIR. Yl CAN YOU BEAT IT! By MAURICE KETTEN See Editorial Page “« Che Circulation Books Open to All, A. be eee suas Fo UREN ga WID URDER VICTIM WAS BRONX GIR “* “ Cirenla’ tion Books Open To-morrows Weather—FAIR, to All.” mae: VOL. LXI. ‘NO. 21,520—DAILY. Copyright, #920, by The Press Publishing Pree. (The New York W NEW YORK , THURSDA ’ MILITANTS WANTED A MOVIE OF THENSE Secretary Foils Them by Sign- ing the Formal Proclama- tion at His Home. i REFUSE TO VISIT HIM Group Headed by Mrs. Catt Calls at State Department and Congratulates Colby. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. — The Proclamation announcing officially that the Suffrage amendment to tho Constitution had been ratified was @igned to-day by Secretary Colby of the State Department. The document was signed at 8 @ clock this morning at Mr. Colby's home, when the certificate from Gov. Roberts that the Tennessee Legisla- @ure had ratified the amendment was wee (ved. Secretary Colby announced ‘bs action on his arrival at his office later. ages WOMEN ARE ANGRY BECAUSE COLBY SIDE STEPPED SHOW Had Planned for Filming Signing of Suffrage Proclamation, but He Wouldn’t Consent. \(Special_From a Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 26— Now that the Suffrage Amendment bas been offielally ratified and pro- elaimed Secretary Bainbridge Colby’s dipiomatic talcnts may have to be ‘employed in coaxing certain Suffrage Teaders out of thetr angry mood re- sulting from several comical mixups early to-day. A crowd of the Alice Paul Militant @roup remained up throughour the Bight to be “in at the death” of their floes the “Antis". They expected the Tennesse certification to reach ‘Washington on between midnight and dawn ond they had arranged to be ep hu.) with photographers and “movie" ien when Secretary Colby Penned his signature to the historic Proclamation. Mr. Colby retired at one A. M., but the militant group kept vigil at (Continued on Second Page.> el RAILROAD FARES UP TO-DAY. jerstate Boost of 20 Per vent N. ¥, Central and New Have Al je Grand Cent) a! Terminal to-day PR wae announced by the New “York Centia! and the New Haven Kutirouts that all passenger rate to places the State will be advanced 20 po Beginning to~iay, in accordance tin the Interstate * Hea to commutation and us dividua) tickets. 6 to pla the Classified Advertisers Important! Claositied advertizing The Sunday World shoul The World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Barly copy receives the preference when Sunday advertising has to be Omitted, Late advertising la now Omitted for lack of time to set it THE WORLD. copy be for tn LVES AND “METHODIST TROT” IS JAZZLESS AND Whole Question > We Dance THISWAY or THIS WAY. E'LL have with us soon “The Methodist Trot,” alias the Pussy Foot Glide, the Cat Step and known among high-brow jazzers as El Gato. It's a shimmyless, jJazziess trot with every spark of wiggle | of one per cent, A committee of the dancing masters now holding their convention at the Astor have virtually decided on the religious nam tae Methodist. Church will lift or modify tts ban on dancing, ' To-night there will be an ex- hibition of dancing in which the half Nelson hitch will be barred. ‘The dances are expected to show the effect of Prohtition on jazz. The whole story binges on this: Shall we dance THISWAY or PHIS Way? a ieee JAMES WILSON DIES Former Secretary of Agriculture Was Native of Scotland—Held Post in ‘Three Cabinets. TRAER, former. Se. at his home here Aug. 26.—Jamen Wilson, ry of Agriculture, died day. Mr. Wilson was a He was born Aug. 16, 1835, the son of John and Jeai MeCosh Wilson. He came to America in 1861 with his Parents, who settled first in Connecti- cut, going four years later to lowe. He was a graduate of lowa College. Ho was successively @ farmer, Aseem- blyman, Regent of the Iowa State Uni- versity, State Railway Commissioner, Congressman, Director of the State Ag- ricultural Station, Professor of Agri- culture of the Jowa Agricultural College. He became Secretary of Agriculture March 6, 1897, continuing unt!! 1918, In the Cabinets of President \McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. He was @ Repub- lean. er MRS. CATT TO GET WELCOME HOME FROM TENNESSEE | | Gov. Smith Will Meet Her at Station and Keception Will Follow. f ks CARRIE CHAPMAN c M CATT will arrive to- , afternown froin N Tenn, Where she Has been @n- gaged In the miffrage tight, She Wil he met ar the Pennsylvants prevent her a bouquet of yello 1 blue flowers on behalf of the 7,000,000 women yolers of the coun ry. After her arrival a pa will be formed at SIat Street and Seventh Avenue and march to the Waidort where a reception will be held in the Astor gallery. ‘The principal speaker will ebe Miss Mary Garrett Hay Mrs, Catt will bo accompanied by Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, a Vie nan of the Republican National mite and M Charl Williams, a Vice Cha of the Demoeratic National Com Mad boa ' cOLBY HASN'T A WIGGLE) | iow Is Whether extracted—it’s not even one-half | tive of Scotland, | _ CROWD OF 30,000 GATE | AT JAIL WHERE IS DYING IN Hi Thirteen Policemen Injured in Free Fight Outside the Prison. LONDON, Aug. 26.—Terence Mac- Sweney, Lord Muyor of Cork, de- spite two serious collapses last night due to bis eritical condition resulting Brixton morning when visited by Father Dominic, his private chaplain from his hunger strike in Prison, was brighter this He was too weak nded Jan his two sist of Cork. ‘sand Bishop It was officially When told last night of King George's telegram replying to the ap- peal of Redmond Howard, nephew of the late John Redmond, urging clem- eney for Irish hunger strikers, Father Dominio eaid: “I am glad, but I am afraid {t 1s too Inte to hope for the Lord Mayor's recovery now. He ts resigned to his fate.” About 80,000 Irish sympathizers as- sembled late last night in front of the jail in one of the most impress- ive demonstrations witnessed by London crowds in years. The throng Was addressed by prominent members of the Labor Party, Word comes from Dunkirk that | 1,000 men employed there on the ratl- ways suspended work for an hour, | marched to the cathedral and for an | hour offerea up prayer for the re- | covery of MacSweney. Many persons kneeled 1p the street outside the| | chureh, Following uews of the refusal } (Contivacd on Ninth Pages De Vulern » Moral Aid Barve wl spoak Avenue and to-ni ; row alled to ask the alg Amerlean poopie Ipport te hetr ioral Wale) wil p in Sento taren Worth SEATTLE your's ul kine from catch on Pribilof Islands worth $2,000,000, according to nary advices received to-day at will be headquarters of thé United tates Bureau of Hisheries, whieh con+ trdis the Bering Sen seal talanda, os WORLD KRENTAURANT, es, Thuteday, Aug.” 20, 1990 Special fur oft ts jet j quan Sysstat to speak inore than a few words, however. Mayor MacSweney's visitors also | Stuted to-day that thirteen policemen were injured. pone seriously, during it night's disturbances outside ton Prison when a crowd en-| ed ina free fight with the police. ° | Sees No H Lexington ERS MAYOR GF CORK S HUNGER STRIKE WATERMELON FOR NEGRO’S LAST MEAL Ohicken Also Will Be Served to Kelley Who Is Electrocuted To-Night for Murder, OSSINING, N. ¥., Aug. 26.—The largest watermelon on the loeal markwt was bought to-day by the Sing Sinng au- thoritles for the last dinner of Frank Kelly, negro murderer, condemned to die tn the eleotric chair to-night ley Murdered Miss Bilzabeth Dunn, & maid in @ house in Flatbush, Brook- lyn, about Christmas time last year For his last dinner to-night Kelle who, however, had not given up hot of a reprieve, ordered ronst French friend potatoes, coffee, nd cue In addition to the wi meal was ordered by Kell Lixan, the murderer oden og, who killed a Bronx @ year ago. scheduled to die in the |to-nlght, but it was though | 1 Joh v ith with cigar clerk in Egan was aloo har ely at the he would be reprieved dur- e day, {prison that Jing Oh “WOMAN” IN PRISON BETRAYED BY CIGAR Sailor Arrested in Central Park in Paris Gown Says Actress Lent Him Finery, For crossing a pair of silk-clad iegs in the women's pen of the West Side Po- lice Court to-day @ prisoner attired in a modish Parisian gown was reprimanded by Mrs. James Riordan, the matron. The brlaoner replied by Ughting and amoking @ long, black olgar, whereupon the ma- tron ran to Jay Fin, the court olork. It was explained to her that the prin- ener was Jo! United States steamship ested early to-day in Central Park with Louls Bran, another tar, Nowicki suid an ac loaned him the femini skylorking” in, A A woll ph Nowicki, ra tah took the sailors -d young Woman at the rear of the heard with evident damay inine finery went with DANIELS TO IGNORE | BAINTER INCIDENT | h in Use of Destroyer | to Meet Fiancee on Incoming Liner, N, to-day WASHID sald Aug. 26 that > Secretary had re actl 8. 7 Dantels rinald Venable who used the destroyer Ingram |to meet his fancee, Mins Fay Bainter. |the eas, on the arrival of the Olym [plc yesterday. ‘expect if T had been tn hts place| in peace time I would have done the same thing,” he sald. | ‘You know I have always advocated ‘naval officers ge married early,” ~ | Cleaning Window, Well Killed, | Mra, Yetta James, forty yeara old, of No, 109 Sixth Street, was kil when she fell from @ fifth floor win dow to the yard at her residence to-| ay. Mhe had been cleaning the wins! ow. ¥, AUG UST 26, 19 SON Entered as Second-Clase Post Office, Now Ye ttor s Ma\ ™ nEDS BACK DOWN ON PEACE TERMS AS TOPOLE ARMY Notify England They Will Not Insist on Workmen’s Militia in Poland. ' TROOPS ESCAPE. SOV! Russian Reserves Reported to Be Massing for Attack on Polish Centre. LONDON, Aug. 26 (Associated Prees).—The Russian Soviet Govern- ment replied to-day to the note of Arthur J, Balfour, Lord President of the Council, concerning the Soviet peace terms to Poland. The Soviet Government agrees to withdraw condition that the Poies provide arms for a workmén’s militia cf 200,000 tts, The Soviet reply was received. by the Russian delegation here. The Moscow Government states that in withdrawing this condition it is sub- ordinating everything else to its par- amount desire to secure the estab- Ushment of peace throughout the world, The Russian delegation in London claims that this concession meets with the wishes of the British and Italian Governments, WARSAW, Aug. 25 (Assoctated Press),-Rusaian. Soviet reserves are reported’being brought up on the southern front in great numbers. Ac. cording to infovmation in the hands of the Polish Gen. Haller reserves some distance behind the Bolshevist north front also are being brought up. The Soviet troops are reported tu be concentrating ulong the Beresina River, where the nt offensive against Warsaw was begun, and mili- tary observers here are speculating ng to the possibility they may launch an attack aguinst the central Polish fhrent . Gen, Haller expressed the belief that when the Soviet offensive beru. there were 300,000 Soviet soldiéra on all fronts and that of these 200,900 had bayonets. He estimated the Soviet losses in prisoners and those who escaped into East Prussia at nearly 100,000, in addition to «aor- mous losses tn killed or wounded The Northern Polish Army ts con- tinuing to move up In the region be- tween Sierpo und Soldau near the east Prussian border, and are march- ing on Chorzellen, to the east of Miawa, to cut off the retreat of the remaining Soviet forces, In the centre the Poles have occu- pled Ostrolenka and Staviski, as well as Kolno, and are marching on Os- MN sowlec. In the south the Poles have retaken Hrubieszow and the 60th Bolshevik Diylsion around Lemberg is retreating to the southeast. LONDON, Aug. 2%.—Polish troops yesterday after hard fighting cag tured the Fortress « enka, twenty-two om Lomza, and for passuge of the Narew River, the Central News Wa | saw correspondent to-day sayy it pificially seated jn the Polis Russian Soviet ® surruu. ar Miawa made a ¢ , n order to break thy ‘ Soviet army escapin tho| tward, Further Hast the Poles,| (Continued on Fourtventh Page.) | | CATCHES TRAIN, BUT DIES, >: Fifteen-Year-Old Joh Merrttt Vic- | tim of B Fatlare, John Me fifteen sears old, fear. ing he would be late to work in Man- hattan, left his home at 924 Street and Sillwell's Lane, in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, this moraing starting on the run He made the station of the ele vated just as a train waw drawing | in. Ag he started to enter a car the boy fell (orward with an attwok of heart disease and died SIAIN WOMAN VANISHED FROM BR BLANCHE SCHULTZ, VICTIM OF MURDER ON THE PALISADES SSS ——— RAND JURY ACTION ON ECKERT MURDER Governor Confers With Rich+ mond Prosecutor on Boot- legger’s Death. District Attorney Maloy of Rich- mond County consulted with Gov. Smith at the Biltmore Hotel to-day regarding the {mpanelling of a special krand jury to consider the murder of youthful bootlegger chief, Fred- erick P. Eckert and also the charges of bribery and collualon with bootleg ery made against several publie of growing out of the murder in- clals vestigation The Governer said he would do all lling of natructed the austen the Impa nd 1 Jury Attorney nend [LICENSE TO WED DENTFED BY HUSBAND. NX HOME TUR Frank Schultz, Railway Conductor, Questioned by District Attorney After Recognizing Palisades Mur- der Victim as His Wife. Mrs. Blanche Schultz, twenty-one years old, wife of Frank Schultz, a railroad conductor, of No. 435 East 135th Street, the Bronx, and fors tmerly a burlesque actress, was the woman’ who was murdered on he Palisades, within a few blocks of the Palisades Amusement Park, and whose body was discovered yesterday afternoon, When she left her home last Satarday mornin,, her husband says she had sewed up in hee cor-et $550 and wore rings valued at $900, ‘The authortties of Bergen. County the motive of the crime, and that the woman. The autopsy shows that she was first struck above the left eat with a blunt instrument, and that some of her teeth were knocked out by a blow on the mouth. Her throat ‘Was out in @ manner that convinces the authorities that her assailant de« termined to leave no doubt of her death, fearing that if she lived hie identity would be revealed, Mrs. Otto Widner, a sister ot the victim, who lives at No. 106 Atlantic Street, Keyport, N. J; and the hos band, Schultz, have identified the effects of Mrs. Schults,” as well an identifying her by their descriptions of physical marks, Neither has yet seen’ the body. i" Headed by Detective Garry Daw: FOR GIRL BELIEVED VICTIM OF MURDER Marriage Halted Until Florence Herman’s Mother Is Satis- fied Daughter Is Alive. Florence Helen Hermans, the nine- teen-year-old manicure girl who was for a time believed to be the victim of the murder at Grantwood, N. J, appeared to-day at the Municipal Building with Nicholas Rintrona for w by ies ate Division} un App uid be designated » hw never been lowp below th irface in Staten Is-} palition' ha Maloy ction 1' Demoor come to told the try Govornar, and cat resulted om. ng known tr because © restraints | if the instructed the mIVvar itor The Governor| Attorney te everything | would can-| spare none, | take ful 1 whic © the publi | Army's Alaska serial expedition took ole lettar Maloy | the alr onsthe return Mi whose arrest as her murderer orders bad been issued by Now Jersey and New York polio, They wanted a marriage licens After they had obtained the loense Rintrona, who was in a high state of indignation, exhibited newspaper ac- counts of the mistaken identification, and the order for hia arrest and asked for sympathy, Instead, mindful of sufety first, Daputy Clerk Cruise tele- phoned to headquarters and detained the pair, Detective Martin appeared and took them before Inapector Cray. “Are we pinched?” asked Miss Her- mana, now as indignant as her eweet- heart “And what for? Because I'm not dead” Inspector Cray eat he only wanted to know, tn view of the various statements made when it was believed she was the murder viotim, that she really wanted to be married and knew her own mind. She waid she did, and had left home Sunday, taking her clothes with her and gone to the Martha Wa “ington under the name of “Mary Larson” because her par- ents refured to accept Nicholas aa @ son-in-law, Rintrona said he wan partner with his father in a bakery and confection- ery at No. 161 Prince Street and knew what he was doing. too. He waived! further explinations and to relieve his feelings smashed the camera «ef a photographer who asked him to pose with his bride, Cray told him that they must wait until Mrs. Hermans came downtown And had the satisfaction of se¢ing her daughter al then they could go and be married with his blessing, he sald. ALASKA FLYERS RETURNING: | Three of Fo Alrpianes Long Flight to Mi NOME, Aleska, Aug, %6.—Three of the four planes in the United States Begin ia, ght to Mineola, Y.. at 3.30 this afternoon. : | The frst leg of thetr trip wil! take cation of reports of an undorstanding |enem to Ruby, 800 miles east Capt. Bt. | between officlulx and beotlemgers | Clair Street, commander of the exped!. nearly every saloon in Staten Ialand| ten, expects to hop off early to- (Continued on Second Page) —_ ‘ (Racing News on Page 20) sinh biennhhisasesilas sical inne dheiilitu ‘e potions where son of Prosecutor Archibald C. Hart's office, surveyors and workmen have mn set at work cleaging away the the body wa found In the hope of finding some further evidence which may lead the Mdentlty of the murderer. ij His gold watch chain is already im the bands of the police. th FOND ai MURDERED WOMAN was OF NIGHT LiFéE. The police of Bergen County have learned that the murdered girl to dance and was fond of night She doted on jewelry and prett: clothes and she and her hus! “played the ponies.” Twice was s separated from her husband because of the attentions of men—one man ia Partioular, the police say. i ‘This man, whose name is withheld, ‘has been sent for by the Hackensack authorities, not that any suspicion for the ortme attaches to him, but to learn from him all he knows about the past life of Mrs. Schulta, to ge) trom him, if possible, the names of other men who were among her many admirers, Prosecutor Hart of Bergen County so waiting for the arrival of Frank Schultz, the husband, at the Hackensack courthouse, to questlos| him about the murdered woman's antecedents and her associates, Ip the meantime, District Attorney Mar- tin of the Bronx intercepted the hus. band on his way to Hackensack, whether he was going to claim the body, Mr. Martin te anxious to know everything obtainable in regard to the movements of Mra, Schults on Sat; urday the last day upon which her husband saw her. i Schults told District Attorney Maz. tin that his wife was once a burlesque actress and that the money she when he last saw hér on Saturday comprised their savings and winnings on the races, accordibg to the infor. ation given gut at the District At. torney’s office’ It developed that husband has been out of work pe some time and that on Saturday he spent mom of his time im saloons) While Schults wes closeted wii Y District Attorney of the Bronx,